When nouns and verbs degrade: Facilitating communication in semantic dementia

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 286-301

  Wong, Stephanie B ^a   Anand, Raksha ^a   Chapman, Sandra B ^a   Rackley, Audette ^a   Zientz, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicative effectiveness; Discourse; Function; Intervention; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DEMENTIA; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH THERAPY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 60149099131     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030801943112     Document Type: Article

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